Environmental News
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| How fundraising helped shape Obama’s green agenda. Once again, there are questions about whether a new President’s approach to energy is a product of Washington’s unchanged, pay-to-play culture in which political supporters are offered special access to the policymaking process. |
| ‘Famine marriages’ just one byproduct of climate change. The negative fallout from climate change is having a devastatingly lopsided impact on women compared to men, from higher death rates during natural disasters to heavier household and care burdens. |
| Health and life insurers grapple with climate effects. Biting bugs are buzzing northward and asthma has spread like a dust cloud, but there are deep divisions about how concerned health and life insurers should be about disease and death caused by climate change. |
| Was Waxman-Markey a waste of energy? The effort to tackle global warming via a cap-and-trade scheme is officially “dead,” says Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). So, where does that leave the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade legislation that squeaked through the House last summer by a single vote after months of convoluted dealmaking? |
| New South Wales rains raise hopes of end to drought. Since Christmas, parched areas of New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state, have received their best rains in a decade, fuelling hopes the continent’s worst drought in a century may finally be easing. |
| Dengue fever on the rise in Sultanate. There’s a significant increase in dengue fever cases in the country, and for the first time, two cases of dengue haemorrhagic fever have been reported. This is a more virulent form of dengue fever, where a patient bleeds through his skin, nose or eyes. |
| What the Sami people can teach us about adapting to climate change. As accelerating climate change and other man-made environmental degradations create growing alarm across the planet, the Sami people have much to teach the world about how to adapt, survive, and thrive, says Elina Helander-Renvall. |
| Wild relatives of crops seen aiding climate fight. Farm experts plan to track down wild relatives of crops such as rice or wheat with traits that make them able to resist global warming in a project costing perhaps $50 million, a leading expert said on Tuesday. |
| China and India join Copenhagen accord. China and India agreed to be “listed” as a parties to the Copenhagen accord, an action that falls short of full “association” and highlights the gulf between the U.S. and other key nations on how to deliver a global deal to combat climate change. |
| Obama pushes climate change in White House meeting. President Barack Obama, weighing in on the Senate’s efforts to pass a climate change bill, gathered Republican and Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday to try to jumpstart an overhaul of U.S. energy policy. |
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